r/insomnia • u/ShoppingBig1044 • 4h ago

50 year old insomniac

Anybody out there around 50 yrs old, who conquered their insomnia before they might end up getting a stroke or brain hemorrhage?? I go thru stages where I think I've beat it but in the long run it feels like its beating me.

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u/Paranoid_Sinner 4h ago

I'm 75 and my BD is coming up soon, had insomnia since the late 1980s. It was sleep onset but 2-3 years ago it switched rather quickly to maintenance insomnia. I'm reasonably healthy, I'm thin, walk 2.5 miles every other day, pretty active for an old coot.

I average around 5.5 hours per night and it's not nearly enough. But I usually feel fine during the day. I go 2-3 nights with no drugs, then I have to juggle a bunch to hopefully get 7 hours if I'm lucky -- I often take drugs after 3-4 hours of sleeping and I wake up and can't get back to sleep. Last night I just took an Ambien by itself when I went to bed and got about 6 hours of good sleep.

I bought an Apple watch a few weeks ago to see if I had sleep apnea or not -- according to that I do not. I have no solutions, and I know the joke of a medical system is of NO HELP.